July 2, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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in connection with the semi-centennial cele- 

 bration, as follows: Doctor of Science to J. C. 

 Arthur, Purdue University; Alfred Atkinson, 

 Montana Agricultural CoU^e; Carleton Eoy 

 Ball, Washington, D. C; Isabel Bevier, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois; Eugene Davenport, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois; A. S. Hitchcock, "Washing- 

 ton, D. C; L. S. Klinck, University of Brit- 

 ish Columbia; John R. Mohler, Washington, 



D. C; Wihnon Newell, Gainesville, Fla.; R. 

 A. Oakley, Washington, D. C. Doctor of 

 Engineering to W. C. Armstrong, St. Paul, 

 Minn.; A. P. Davis, Washington, D. C; 

 Thomas L. Smith, Milwaukee, Wis. 



Major Geneeal William G. Gorgas, former 

 surgeon-general of the United States Army, 

 has been obliged to abandon his mission to 

 West Africa, where he was going to investi- 

 gate sanitary conditions. Other members of 

 the party, headed by Brigadier General Robert 



E. Noble, U. S. Army, will proceed thither on 

 June 30. General Gorgas recently suffered in 

 London a stroke of apoplexy, which affected 

 the left side. His condition is still serious 

 and it is planned that he shall return to the 

 United States when he is able to travel. 



In its account of the Imi)erial Entomolog- 

 ical Conference held in London from June 1 

 to 11 Nature says : " Much gratification was 

 felt and expressed at the presence for the first 

 two days of Dr. L. O. Howard, entomologist 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. His 

 brief, pointed remarks at some of the dis- 

 cussions were much appreciated; he deplored 

 some recent attempts to destroy 'entomol- 

 ogy ' as a specific economic subject by dividing 

 its subject-matter between ' parasitology ' and 

 ' phytopathology.' " 



Dr. C. G. Abbot, assistant secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, has gone to Arizona 

 to supervise the setting up of a solar observ- 

 ing station in the Haqua Hala Moimtains. 



Professor Lewis Knudson, of the College 

 of Agriculture, has returned to Ithaca after a 

 stay of several months in Prance and Spain. 

 At the request of the Spanish government he 

 visited Madrid and Barcelona, at the Natural 

 Museum of Science he organized a depart- 



ment of plant physiology and gave a course of 

 lectures and conducted a laboratory. 



Brigadier General M. T. Finney, Colonel 

 John B. Walker and Lieutenant Colonels 

 Robert H. Ivy and Murray S. Danforth, Med- 

 ical Reserve Corps, have been ordered to 

 Paris, France, for duty at the coming inter- 

 allied surgical conference. 



Dr. Seymour Hadwen has resigned his 

 position as chief pathologist in charge of the 

 biological laboratory, Health of Animals 

 Branch, Canadian Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Ottawa, Canada, and has taken a posi- 

 tion as chief pathologist in the Reindeer In- 

 vestigations of the Bureau of Biological 

 Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 His headquarters are Unalakleet, Alaska. 



Dr. N. E. Dorsey, physicist of the Bureau 

 of Standards, has resigned in order to go into 

 consulting and testing work. 



C. H. KiDWELL, chief of the Water Re- 

 sources Laboratory of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, has resigned to accept a position with 

 the Solvay Process Company at Syracuse. 



Cephas Hempstone Sinclair, hydrographic 

 and geodetic engineer in the U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, died on May 16, in his sev- 

 enty-third year. 



Leonard Doncaster, F.R.S., fellow of King's 

 College, Cambridge, and Derby professor of 

 zoology in the University of Liverpool, died 

 on May 28, in his forty-third year. 



Dr. F. Kolpdj Eavn, the Danish plant 

 pathologist, died on May 24, at Orange, New 

 Jersey, while on a visit to the United States. 

 The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an open competitive examination on 

 July 27, for psychological investigator in em- 

 ployment tests to fiU vacancies in the Bureau 

 of Efficiency, at salaries of $3,000 to $4,000 a 

 year. The position is open to both men and 

 women. Candidates will not be required to 

 report for examination, but will be rated on 

 education, experience and a thesis. 



The following officers and members of coun- 

 cil of the Royal Astronoiriical Society were 

 elected at the anniversary meeting on Feb- 



